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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service Washington – Sen. John McCain has one story he tells again and again about his religious life. In a campaign ad, a family memoir, and most recently a televised interview with megachurch pastor Rick Warren, he recalls a guard in his prisoner of war camp in Vietnam who…

Associated Press Beijing – Christian groups who flouted a Chinese ban on foreign missionaries are calling their underground evangelizing during the Olympic Games a success. Drawn to a nation of 1.3 billion people under atheist rule, the groups prepared for years for what the Southern Baptists once called “a spiritual harvest unlike any other.” “We…

Associated Press – August 20, 2008 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Roman Catholic diocese has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million to settle 47 pending sexual abuse claims against the diocese and its priests. In a letter sent to priests with the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese late Tuesday night, Bishop Robert W. Finn said the…

Associated Press – August 20, 2008 PONCE DE LEON, Florida – When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children. He suspended some of her friends who expressed…
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